STANLEY — Stanley left no doubt this time, decisively beating Whiteville 11-1 in five innings Thursday to reach the championship series of the North Carolina Dixie Youth Baseball 9-10-year-old AAA State Tournament.

Will Farnsworth homered twice to lead Stanley, which will face East Duplin in the best-of-three title series starting 7 p.m. Friday at Harper Park. Game 2 will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday and would be immediately followed by a third game, if necessary.

Farnsworth hit a first-pitch home run in each of his first two at-bats, the first one a solo shot and the second one driving in three runs.

Cody Chapman and Savannah Baldwin each added a double and two runs each for Stanley while Adam Rushing’s run-scoring double in the fifth ended the game early by the 10-run mercy rule.

Bryson Walker pitched a complete game and held Whiteville to three hits.

Stanley scored two runs in the second inning and then went ahead 5-0 in the fourth inning before pulling away in the fifth. This was a night after Stanley defeated the same Whiteville team 14-10 after giving up five runs in the final half-inning. The teams faced each other three times this week with Stanley losing the first matchup 12-8 before winning the next two.

East Duplin advanced to the championship series with a 6-5 win against Dunn. East Duplin lost its first game of the tournament before winning four straight to reach the title round.

A coin flip determined that East Duplin will be the home team for Game 1 on Tug Deason Field, the field East Duplin has played on all week. Stanley will then be the home team in Game 2 on its weeklong side of the park, Nic O’Brien Field. If a third game is necessary, a coin flip will determine the home team and field.